This Keystroke is MAGIC for Sooner, Better Photo Edits (VIDEO)

What if we informed you there’s a key in your keyboard that may do a little bit of magic in Lightroom? That will sound like a foolish declare, however in accordance with a revered professional it’s completely true. The tutorial beneath demonstrates precisely the way it works for a wide range of vital enhancing duties.

Stijn Borgers (AKA Sightseeing Stan on YouTube) is a Belgian photographer based mostly in in Germany’s Black Forest. He’s additionally an adept teacher recognized for distinctive photograph ideas, and immediately’s episode is a great one.

What we’re speaking about right here is the Alt key on a PC keyboard (Possibility key on a Mac) and Borgers says it supplies “genius enhancing” when working in Lightroom. As you’ll see, it does so by revealing hidden capabilities that can positively speed up and enhance your workflow.

Borders demonstrates how the Alt/Possibility key allows you to “do some professional Lightroom enhancing and uncover new methods.” He additionally guarantees that benefiting from his ideas will take your abilities to the subsequent degree.

The video contains a number of nice productiveness methods, and Borgers begins with Lightroom’s Tone Curve device that’s tremendous highly effective for adjusting the tonal vary of a picture. The issue is that it may be considerably “fiddly” when making positive changes. Nonetheless, by holding the magic key whereas making Tone Curve modifications, the drag velocity slows down thereby making positive changes much less clumsy and extra exact.

Borgers explains a number of different ways in which the Alt/Possibility key works wonders, together with the best way to use it together with Masking filters, the Linear Gradient filter, and the Brush filter. You’ll additionally see how this trick simplifies the method when utilizing Lightroom’s Spot Removing and Crop instruments.

There’s much more this magic key can do, from clipping, sharpening, and noise discount, to controlling post-crop vignetting. So give it a try to put the Alt/Possibility key in your Lightroom bag of methods.

After watching the lesson head over to the Sightseeing Stan YouTube channel the place there’s far more to study.

And for those who missed Half 4 of the favored Lightroom Masterclass we’ve been posting weekly, you will discover it right here.